The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

LIQUORICE

Liquorice (Astragalus glycyphyllos) is a robust, more or less hairless perennial herb of the Leguminosae family found in Europe. The leaves are pinnately divided into ovate leaflets that taste of liquorice. The plant bears cream-coloured flowers carried in small, shortly-stalked clusters in the leaf axils. The fruit is a narrowly rectangular, slight flattened and curved, hairless pod.
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